You know why the ''living room'' came to be so called...

NAMES AND FACES - INFORMED SOURCE

June 3, 1992|By L.M. Boyd

You know why the ''living room'' came to be so called? Before 1910, funerals frequently were held in parlors of larger homes. The Ladies Home Journal editors decided that gave parlors a bad image. So they repeatedly referred to the parlor thereafter as the ''living room.'' And funeral arrangers built parlors of their own.

Report is the most popular name for 7-year-old girls nationwide is Ashley.

Said the Scottish thinker David Hume: ''The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.''

The middle initial of Michael J. Fox is really A. He figured too many people might write his name with a comma after the Michael, so he changed it.

I'm now told Barbie Doll's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

The mouth of the Mississippi is slowly moving west. So say the river watchers.